Little Green Footballs gets sick of a lot of the right

[nancylebov]

and a lot of his commenters agree with him.

I could have realized LGF had become less outrageous-- I haven't seen it cited as something horrendous for a long time in the leftish circles where I hang out.

Still, this reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask. Does anyone have a list (doesn't have to be complete) of the Republicans who have written "my party has betrayed me" books?

Link indirectly thanks to supergee. He connected to Pandagon, but I think the comments at LGF are part of the story.

Addendum: A list of disillusioned Republicans

Comments

[madfilkentist]

Little Green Footballs first came to the attention of a lot of people, including me, with the well-reasoned analysis of the "Rathergate" forgery. I once wrote a post titled "Little Green Football goes out of bounds", but as I said even then, Johnson isn't a fool.

[asim.livejournal.com]

Start with Sully's The Conservative Soul.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Bill Buckley's son Chris is a great example, as is Ronald Reagan's son, Ronald Reagan Jr.

[ginamariewade.livejournal.com]

David Brock, Blinded by the Right. It was a thoroughly enjoyable book.

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

That was a fabulous book.

Lest one forget...

[tahkhleet.livejournal.com]

...Obama is giving huge swaths of the party grounds to write their own books along those lines. Both parties are hopelessly corrupt.

[subnumine.livejournal.com]

That depends on your sense of symmetry; neither LGF nor any of the books quoted in comments are accusing the Right of behaving like Democrats - and indeed they aren't.

Obama, however, is being accused, on some reasonable grounds, on governing like a (moderate) Republican - if there were any of those left. That was part of his campaign promises; several of us voted for him because he seemed likely to produce compromises not quite as base as those to be expected from the present Secretary of State - and, in the general election, it seemed better to have someone who would compromise with the boundless fatheadedness of John McCain than McCain himself, unadulterated.

Re: Lest one forget...

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

What do you have in mind?

Re: Lest one forget...

[avram]

You (I suspect) are complaining about the Democratic party's selling-out of its base.

Charles Johnson is complaining about his party's base having gone crazy.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

I perfectly understand being sick of the Republicans. On the other hand, now the Democrats have been in for a year and I'm heartily sick of them, too, to the point where I look forward to seeing them punished by a comprehensive electoral defeat. That's exactly how I felt about the Republicans a year ago. A plague on both their houses.

[llennhoff.livejournal.com]

If there was a vaiable third party I'd agree with you, but better center rightist corporate lackeys masquerading as progressives than wing nut corporate lackeys out in the open as wing nuts. If only elections included a 'none of the above' option - (if 'none of the above won' you would have to hold a new election and the candidates from the old one would not be allowed to run).

Since one party or the other is going to get in, I'd rather have it be the people who will do the least damage, rather than those who would bring the system down.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

The Democrats looked like the party that would do the least damage a year ago. Since then, I've seen Barack Obama abandon his unsound but endurable health care proposals for a set of really abusive proposals that play to the Democratic mainstream. If they pass, they will do nontrivial damage to me, and I anticipate that they will make the American health care system not merely measurably but perceptibly worse. I think it's time the Democrats got severely punished in turn.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Punished how? It's not crazy to think that the Republicans would be even worse.

A new party founded by the disgusted Republicans might be a good idea, but I'm not sure where the assertion/aggression to face down the crazies is going to be found.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

We got the Democrats in, and the Republicans are doing an impressive job of making them struggle for every last nuance of their proposed legislation. So it may be hoped that if the Republicans get in, the Democrats still in Congress will be an equal pain to them. And then when the Republicans try to use their new majority to do something stupid and abusive, we punish them in turn.

The only method we have of punishing political arrogance is by turning the bastards out.